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I am writing an article for Red Tricycle – a digital city guide of fun things to do with your kids in and around Portland – about Cool Dads in our fair city and want to include you. How do I send you some questions?

Hello Dan: I’m a muic student form Colombia who heard about your plan,and I’m going to read the same books you read. My idea is to investigate the cerebral plasticity and how to add it into “how learn to study”. I want to let you know that you are part of a colloquium I will give to some students to form a research team about this: nutrition, acquired talent (that’s your part), sleep, myelination process. Why do I care about this? Beacuse my son has cerebral palsy, and a friend of mine read about you and now I’m here trying to learn about your experience and writting this to you. Thanks for your time and sorry for my spelling errors. Juan Tapias.

Hey Dan,
I find what you are doing very interesting. After reading this book. I’ve come to the realization that Gladwell is incorrect with his theory. I know how much can a teen say to convince you. But have you ever realized that in Gladwell’s book he never states the kind of practice that was put into the hours. You may be performing at a lower level and obtaining {whatever} hours of time. But, some one that just started receiving great skills and correct ways of performing could be excelling greatly. You fail to post on your “blog” what kind of ways you are practicing. For all we know is that you are practicing incorrectly, in which would never get you to a professional golfer. Not to be negative or ruin you dream. I just feel like no one ever looks into his theory and reform his synopsis. In which meaning Gladwell fails to add variables to his equation.

Hi Summer Townsend. I am also an athlete and I can vouch for the 10000 hour rule. They way it really works is you should be able to compete professionally at 7, 8,000 (deliberate play + talent). But to reach an elite level you need 10,000hrs.
Don’t worry Summer. You cannot ruin his dream. You are irresponsible to think he does not know some of the opposing arguments to the 10,000 hour rule. Anyways, life is short and he can always go back to being a photographer if he fails. Good luck Dan. Believe in yourself and keep pushing even when it feels like you are failing because that is often the foundation for success.

Hi Nick, I would guess 10,000 hours of practice is likely to improve one’s skill, in whatever field, but I would tend to agree more with Summer about the fact that given the correct instruction to begin with, and a certain aptitude, that excellence, like say in golf, can be attained in far less than in a supposed 10,000 hours. When I started golf my problem was slicing. Today, aside this being fixed, and having gone full circle in having in the process found the correct swing in JH Taylor’s teachings, and the correct way to hit a golf ball in Henry Cotton’s, I steadily do pars, even birdies – to say basically that once the correct way is known, golf it’s like riding a bike. You don’t forget, even if not playing regularly. Having said that, it probably took me something like 10,000 hours to get there, but I would today be happy to bet I could get anyone to hit a golf ball (others say swing a club) properly within a week. Of course, learning also how to putt, to pitch, to chip, etc. would require a bit more time One thing that is definitively needed, as superbly demonstrated by Dan, is persistence and application (plus time to reach one’s highest peak). But don’t let me try to convince anyone, just visit my websites and assess the material there further.

I do a morning sports talk show in Florence, Alabama from 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. CT. I wanted to see the media availability of Dan and check in on the possibility of Dan making an appearance to tell his story and talk about what he is doing.

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Dan decided in April 2010 to quit his job and, with zero previous experience in the game, dedicate 10,000 hours of practice to golf. Follow his journey as he discovers how practice translates into success.